NIKKE, when the stars bloom

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Deliberately leaking information is a technical job that requires a lot of thinking and counter-measures.

You can neither let the other party feel relaxed in the process of obtaining the information, nor hide the information too secretly so that it cannot be leaked.

Based on this concept, Phoenix did not openly let Xisis play the leading role and lead him around the building, acting as if he was afraid that others would not know that a secret force had kidnapped the CEO of Missilis.

The cunning lieutenant chose a more credible approach

-Take the most secretive route and deliberately let the couple having sex in the car in the underground garage catch a glimpse of herself inadvertently.

I have to say that this method sounds good at first glance, but when it comes to actual operation, the success rate is not very high.

After all, it was impossible for Phoenix to carry the unconscious Shuen and deliberately knock on the hood of the luxury off-road vehicle.

Whether the thing can be accomplished depends mainly on the luck and IQ of the fat executive.

Unfortunately, no one saw him at all, so the plan went down the drain.

Because his IQ was too high, the person who saw it didn’t report it to the relevant personnel, so the plan still fell through.

However, judging from the exciting scenes in his sea of ​​consciousness, the lieutenant felt that his plan would most likely succeed.

Because the fat man obviously added some money to the call girl, so the girl's service attitude was much more enthusiastic than at the beginning.

Less than two minutes passed.

With the help of Anik's navigation, the lieutenant took many detours and came to a maintenance passage that had been abandoned for who knows how many years. After walking forward for more than a hundred meters, he came to a remote small door leading out of the main body of the Missilis Building.

"Xisi, do you have any worries?"

Based on humanitarianism towards his own people, Phoenix was well aware of the high-risk situation that Xixis would face after completing this journey with him.

Considering the moral level of the Ark gang is below the civilized baseline, once they confirmed Psych's identity and failed to catch him in a short time, it should be a basic operation for them to harm his family in their helpless rage.

"Do you have?"

Seeing that the killer didn't say anything, the lieutenant repeated the question patiently.

And what about Alexis?

The killer, who didn't understand his leader's character yet, thought of the various bloody rumors about the "crazy lieutenant" and thought that Phoenix was afraid that his family would be taken hostage afterwards, so he planned to kill his entire family out of kindness.

"without……"

The heartwarming scene of his family having dinner together emerged in his mind. Alex was about to risk his life to lie, but unexpectedly, his leader had already spoken when he opened his mouth.

"Is there any? If so, please tell me quickly. I will arrange for you to go to the outer edge area at once, so you don't have to come back again when the time comes."

xis: “…”

The killer, who had already said the word "no", didn't know how to change his words so that the subsequent topic would not become too awkward.

So, wanting to say something but not knowing how to say it, he had to just shut his mouth obediently, then nodded vigorously, indicating to his leader that he still had someone he cared about in the Ark.

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"check."

"Notify all spies and mobilize all your connections. I want to know all the information about this Xis, including his resume before he became a killer, and the background of his direct bloodline."

In a private mansion in the Royal Avenue residential area, a middle-aged man wearing single-sided glasses was spinning and playing with a teacup, nodding and staring at the genuine tea leaves slowly sinking into the cup. After thinking for a while, he added to the housekeeper at the door:

“By the way, you should prioritize the investigation of that masked bodyguard first.

The ACPU has given me a preliminary autopsy report, which shows that all seventeen killers died in close combat or close-range sneak attacks.

The opponent who can cultivate a killing machine with such skills is either the central government or the military, if not the military, it is the Pure Land, and at most an Inquisition.

I don't need to know his true identity. I just need to know which company he supports, who he works for, and whether Xisis and he are of the same kind.

That’s about it for now, go ahead and do it.”

"Yes, master."

At the door, the housekeeper who had been waiting for a long time smiled charmingly, then left the study and closed the door. Her pretty face, which had originally been full of youthful energy, quickly turned cold, and her back disappeared at the end of the corridor with her footsteps.

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At this moment, in the center of the Ark.

"Anderson...did you say...is it possible...could it be...Schuen is, is, is directing and acting in this show himself?

She took advantage of the assassination... opportunity to deliberately pretend to be... missing. And then... to make everyone... realize her... her importance, and to increase her... her voice in disguise?"

Burnim's long-term active life in politics has made him not believe any superficial information. However, this time, his conspiracy theory speculation was despised by a number of senior leaders including Dowan and Anderson.

"Shun doesn't have the brains for that."

The head of the central government's intelligence department, Nikolai Ye, pointed out the problem very bluntly.

"If she really had the means, she wouldn't have figured it out today."

"..."

Faced with Nicholas' disdain when talking about Shuen, Burnim, whose guess was rejected, did not express any dissatisfaction, and still looked like a timid short, fat man.

Ever since Phoenix joined the Intelligence Department, top-secret information reports such as "Contact with the Pilgrims", "Contact with the Garden of Eden", "Contact with the Heretics", "Discovery of the Sky Ring City", etc. have been pouring into the intelligence department's barren information database like free sand.

Now that the intelligence department had the information, Nikolai Ye, the minister, naturally changed his previous humble attitude and gradually revealed his strong character in the political circle.

Then, the minister sat at the table and said:

“Our people have already contacted the relevant persons in charge at Missilis. Judging from their attitude, the top management of Missilis prefers to solve the problem themselves, and even interfered with the intervention of ACPU.

There are only two pieces of information released to the public at the moment.

First, there were eighteen assassins who tried to kidnap Shuen, but only seventeen bodies were found at the scene. After a forensic autopsy, it was found that the deceased was most likely killed by one person, and all of them were killed by blunt force trauma, and there were no gunshot wounds on the bodies.

Second, Shuen's personal bodyguard also disappeared along with him. According to witnesses, the bodyguard came to the Missilis headquarters building for the first time today and had never been seen before.

To put it simply, a total of three people are missing in this incident, including Shuen, the bodyguard Shuen hired, and the killer who kidnapped Shuen.

Given that Shuen was the target of the kidnapping, we have reason to suspect that the killer and the bodyguard may have worked together. This was a long-planned kidnapping plan, and it is not ruled out that Missilis was behind it. "

"Heh, seventeen professional killers died at the hands of a personal bodyguard. Minister Ye is really a joker."

Deputy Commander Dowan, who had shot and killed women and children in the Outer Rim at the age of eight and had a bloodthirsty and twisted heart who took pleasure in killing, knew better than anyone present how outrageous it was to "single-handedly kill 17 killers."

I only heard him snort coldly and said sarcastically:

“Why, Minister Ye, don’t you think everyone is the psychopath under your command?

Do you really think that 17 living people with guns are so easy to kill?"

Chapter 298 Magical Reality

"Dowan, watch your words."

Anderson's reaction was quite fast.

Before Nicholas Ye's face could turn cold, he decisively reprimanded Duo Wan, nipping the beginning of conflict in the bud before the intelligence minister could get angry.

Without any evidence, he just said that only the subordinates of so-and-so could do this, and he made such a bold statement in front of so many people. Not to mention that the current Minister of Intelligence would not be able to tolerate it, even in the past, he might not be able to swallow this.

as predicted……

"It seems that the command has no confidence in the professional capabilities of our intelligence department."

Minister Ye stood up without being servile or overbearing, symbolically straightened his military uniform, and said:

"In that case, further discussion will only lead to disagreements. Why don't we keep in touch with each other and notify each other when there is new news?"

After saying this, he turned and headed towards the door, striding out of the meeting room in full view of everyone, leaving a group of senior central government officials with different expressions standing or sitting, staring at each other in silence.

After a few breaths...

I don't know who sighed softly, and the simple breath was mixed with pity, regret, helplessness and other complex and difficult-to-express emotions. At the same time, it seemed to be asking:

Which son of a bitch suggested that they release the person to the intelligence department in the first place?

What a lack of foresight!

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The bustling crowd,

The brightly lit supermarket,

In the underground square that covers an area about the size of two football fields, children are enthusiastically playing with various electronic products, and adults are happily looking at the interesting things on the stalls.

As for the disguised Phoenix and Psyche, they followed the latter's lead and calmly turned into a door curtain that reflected a dim fluorescent blue like veterans.

In this regard, Mr. Fei, who has a virtuous wife and keeps himself clean, couldn't help but feel a little confused.

Logically speaking, shouldn't this kind of scene be a conventional pink light?

So, driven by curiosity, the lieutenant had an idea and took a quick look at the interior of several rooms before he understood why the store did not use pink lights to hint to customers.

It seems that the store owner does not provide real people services, but cyber girlfriends whose race may not even be human...

"Uncle Sam, it's me, Seth."

Alexis, who was leading the way, waved at a decorative painting quite skillfully. Then, the door opposite the decorative painting suddenly made an unlocking sound, then slowly moved sideways and embedded in the wall.

The next second, an old man holding a double-barreled shotgun and chewing nicotine gum appeared at the door frame, cursing and shouting in a hoarse voice:

"Damn it, you've forgotten all the rules here, haven't you? How dare you bring outsiders in? Ptah!"

He suddenly spat out the gum in his mouth onto the ground, and then the old man's next action could not be described as violent.

——He actually wanted to point the double-barreled shotgun in his hand at the lieutenant without saying a word.

“Don’t! Don’t don’t don’t don’t don’t—!!!”

Seeing such a horrifying scene, the killer was completely anxious. He stood between the two men with his hands in a gesture of surrender, and advised with his eyelids twitching wildly:

"I'm here to take my mother away, Uncle Sam, you, you calm down, don't shoot. If you really can't do it, you can turn around and shoot me, but please don't shoot this person..."

However, after only a dozen seconds of explanation, a fine layer of cold sweat had already covered Xis's forehead and some of his hair roots.

Seeing how nervous he was, the tough old man named Sam quickly realized that the true identity of the strange man in front of him might be far beyond his expectations.

Therefore, the old man also revealed a different shrewdness and cunning than before. He slowed down his tone without being humble or arrogant, frowned, and explained to the visitor why he had been so violent just now in a way that seemed to continue cursing.

"Seth, I'm warning you, you better not fool me. With the little achievements you've made in the past few years, even a fat janitor wouldn't believe you can get any big shots."

The underlying meaning of what old man Sam said was actually very simple. He was simply saying that he and Alex were of low status, and that it was appropriate for them not to recognize the distinguished guest.

However, Phoenix, who was at the very end of the corridor, was not paying attention to Old Deng at the moment.

In the lieutenant's consciousness, the considerate Anik had already completely scanned the architectural structure of the place and marked the areas that required special attention with red circles.

Inside the circle, a total of seventy-three humans whose ages could not be determined were carrying out activities in a large compartment similar to a capsule hotel.

Most of them had already fallen asleep, while the remaining ones were still whispering in groups of two or three.

Phoenix was very curious about this. At first, he thought that this hotel, which seemed to be running a cyber erotic business, was secretly housing prostitutes, but after thinking about it, he felt that this possibility was very low.

What time is it?

How could a prostitute sleep during the prime time of nightlife?

Combined with what Alex told old man Sam, he wanted to take his mother away, so the identities of the 73 people living in the capsule hotel are self-evident.

——They are probably the family members of the offenders.

The capsule hotel located underground is most likely a large-scale safe house.

"How do you solve the problem of food, clothing and daily necessities?"

The man asked sincerely:

"With dozens of mouths to feed, how do you manage to make purchases without exposing the truth? And how do you get the daily necessities in?"